The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 22
Whilst she was crying the grand-vizir came in and asked if the fish were ready.
Who acts: girl, fish · What happens: cry, come in, ask, be · To what, where: grand vizir
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, fish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 4 crying | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 crying | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 crying | aux |
| 4 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 came | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 vizir | det |
| 6 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 vizir | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 grand | punct |
| 8 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crying | obj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 ready | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fish | det |
| 15 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ready | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ready | cop |
| 17 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past · progressive | girl | the grand vizir | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vizir=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come in | past | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | the fish | ready property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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